Irish Slang

Ulster

Details: Parent Category: Ulster; Created: 19 August 2019

Ugly

Details: Parent Category: Ulster; Created: 19 August 2019

A f*ckin cnut

Details: Parent Category: Ulster; Created: 19 August 2019

Wet, runny muck

Details: Parent Category: Ulster; Created: 19 August 2019

Fast and furious

Details: Parent Category: Ulster; Created: 19 August 2019

A supposedly Irishman,who’d pick up an English accent fast

Details: Parent Category: Ulster; Created: 19 August 2019

Common as muck male

Details: Parent Category: Ulster; Created: 19 August 2019

A typically Northern Irish expression also spoken as "face as long as a Lurgan spade" meaning to look miserable or long faced. One theory about the origin of this expression is that a “Lurgan spade” was an under-paid workman digging what is now the Lurgan Park lake. Another theory is that it is a translation from the Irish language lorga spád meaning the shaft/shin of a spade. Upon observation you would say...